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Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw
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Born in Richmond, Victoria, Australia in 1934, CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE was educated at the University of Melbourne. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1984. He taught in Australia and at Harvard as Visiting Professor of Australian Studies. He has received many awards for his poetry. He was Director of the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, and is now Professor Emeritus in the Centre. He was also General Editor of Oxford's Australian Writers (1990-6) and Associate Editor of The Oxford Literary History of Australia (Melbourne, OUP, 1998). He has published fourteen volumes of poetry, the last being Whirling (OxfordPoets) in 1998.

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A witty, endearingly slangy, yet unostentatiously philosophical Australian poet Times Literary Supplement His allies are words and he uses them with the care of a surgeon and the flair of a conjuror. Peter Porter

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